There is power in authority. Microsoft's strategy against open source uses authority. It ties up institutions that are authoritative, that have power over professions, creating a benefit for the institution that ties its members to proprietary Microsoft tools....To Microsoft open source is not an end in itself. It is a marketing tool. It is a way to gain lock-in with important customer sets.
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British Library and Microsoft Corrupt the Meaning of “Open Source”
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Microsoft is once again using the British Library to promote its own agenda and extend its grip over society's assets
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More Mono and Patent Poison from Novell
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“Pinta” comes from Novell staff and software patents tax (on SLE*) comes from Microsoft in the form of vouchers
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The Microsoft Apologists and Boosters Really, Really Like Novell!
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A complete list of news articles about Moonlight 3.0 preview shows that its biggest fans are Microsoft fans
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Microsoft Shows Yet Again That It is Allergic to GNU/Linux
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Microsoft's hatred of GNU/Linux, as demonstrated in this weekend's news
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It looks like a divide and conqueror plan to me
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Going through my Saturday morning news articles I came across a title guaranteed to catch my eye. It is an article on Yahoo news titled "Microsoft to Drop Linux, Unix Versions of Enterprise Search". Naturally I had to read this article.
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Apple is Bad for Sharing, Forbids Mentioning Linux
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Apple's proximity to the copyright cartel and its fear of freedom as illustrated by this week's news
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Canonical Gets New Chief Operating Officer Who Already Defends Microsoft’s Biased ‘Search’
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Shortly after deciding to send users' search queries to Microsoft datacentres, Canonical hires a man who defends Microsoft for "options and competition"
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Bad News for the Free Software Movement
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"Matt Asay has left Alfresco and joined Canonical as its new Chief Operating Officer..."
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Sleeping with Mono
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CodePlex Foundation Picks Paula Hunter as Executive Director
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As you may recall, the CodePlex Foundation indicated in January that it expected to name a permanent Executive Director within a few weeks' time. That has now happened...
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Relationships Map
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A mindmap connecting entities that we regularly cover here and how they are connected
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Microsoft’s Lawsuit Against Google and What It Teaches Us About Mono
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Google Books settlement and how it relates to Microsoft, its dirty tricks, and the gradual pollution of GNU/Linux code pool by Novell and others
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Calculating the Microsoft Patent Tax at Novell
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Brian Proffitt, former Managing Editor of LinuxToday, looks at the amounts of money Novell extracts from SUSE users for Microsoft and Novell to share
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The Apple exception: where open innovation theory breaks down
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Yet, having lived in the open source world for the last 10+ years, and knowing more than my fair share of open source true believers, I can tell you that no company can make more folks put their beliefs aside for a shiny new object quicker than Apple.
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